investment

Definitions

General English

noun money spent by a government or a company to improve it or make it more successful

Accounting

noun a share, bond or piece of property bought in the hope that it will produce more money than was used to buy it

Economics

noun the placing of money so that it will increase in value and produce an income (either in an asset, such as a building, or by purchasing shares, placing money on deposit, etc.)

Health Economics

(written as Investment)

Investment is the change in the stock of capital over a period. In national income accounting, investment (descriptively) consists of expenditures on house building, plant and equipment, and stocks (inventories). In each case, it is only new output produced during the accounting period that is included.